Description

Chess puzzles aka tactics are an ideal way to practice and improve your chess without having to find an opponent or spend time playing an actual game. iChess presents 1000 offline puzzles from real FIDE tournament games. Just launch and start solving!

iChess is now available on iPhone and iPad! http://goo.gl/1GIu67★★★★★ "Awesome app with hell lot of puzzles. Best one seen so far !!"★★★★★ "Its a great and functional training tool"★★★★★ "This has helped improve my chess game"

FEATURES♟ Three difficulty levels makes it suitable for kids/beginners, advanced and even serious masters. All puzzles are offline. No internet connection required♟ Load your own PGN puzzle file. Chessbase CBH format not supported♟ Hint and engine analysis with Stockfish! Analyzing the puzzle with the engine is a good way to improve your game♟ Bird View feature to view Solved/Failed and unseen puzzles. Or solve the difficult puzzles again!♟ Master Chess openings by solving tactics from popular chess openings like Sicilian, Kings Indian etc (extra $)♟ Improve your chess endgame knowledge with thematic puzzles like 'Tactics in the Endgame' (extra $)♟ Get awed by games of Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen and other players with special puzzle packs♟ Solve puzzles from recent 2016 tournament chess games (extra $)♟ New Material design! (thanks to Ilya Kostin)

NOTE♟ Some puzzles simply win a pawn or a piece. Not all chess games end in checkmate!♟ Puzzles/Tactics are arranged in increasing order of difficulty♟ Thanks to theweekinchess.com and pgnmentor.com for the PGN files.Free vs iChess Pro$ Free version has Ads$ Free and Pro version both have access to the same features$ Upgrading this Free version via the In-App purchase to remove Ads (Settings), has the same effect as the Pro version which is available as a separate AppPopular Tactics packs:★ Very Hard Tactics 1 & 2 by IM Slizhevsky★ Best Tactics of 2014 and 2015

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Allan Ho

Great puzzles and the user experience feels nice. It's just the UI that I'm not happy with. Needs to be optimized, like someone else said, in order for us to feel in control with what we want to do and how we play.

Dmitri Kozlov

Great app Great app for keeping your brain working. The only problem is that after recent update it started mixing icons for purchased sets (icons are changing every time main app screen is displayed) , which makes visual finding of a set to play challenging. I will not drop a star for this. As a developer, I know that sometimes things happen. Hint: this problem happens only after changing the sorting and persists until restart of the app. It looks like after restart the icons come back to proper places again.

Gehan Fernando

Great App I will give five stars. Compare to othet applications this app is good however the application UI should be more optimize. Finally add more puzzles for all three levels.

It would be great to actually play chess, after learning so much. All in the same app. P.s. if i could change the appearance of the characters, way more important than the colors of the squares.

Eduardo Gabales

Asim, Thank you for creating this app. I Love it. Give us a downloading link for other pgn tactics, endgame, and strategies. -Best Regards Eduardo

User reviews

Allan Ho July 22, 2017

Great puzzles and the user experience feels nice. It's just the UI that I'm not happy with. Needs to be optimized, like someone else said, in order for us to feel in control with what we want to do and how we play.

Hello Allan, thanks a lot for your feedback. We would surely love to improve the UI. Anything specific that comes to your mind on how we could improve it or what it means to feel in control? Would love to hear your feedback via email at pereira.asim@gmail.com
Thanks, Asim

Dmitri Kozlov October 31, 2016

Great app Great app for keeping your brain working. The only problem is that after recent update it started mixing icons for purchased sets (icons are changing every time main app screen is displayed) , which makes visual finding of a set to play challenging. I will not drop a star for this. As a developer, I know that sometimes things happen. Hint: this problem happens only after changing the sorting and persists until restart of the app. It looks like after restart the icons come back to proper places again.

Hello Gregorio, thanks for your candid feedback. Will surely add an option to change the piece characters. Playing within the App can be considered, but then I need to make sure the experience is right.
Maybe it would be good if you could play and analyze in the Analyze This app?
Regards, Asim (pereiraasim@gmail.com)

Eduardo Gabales May 8, 2017

Asim, Thank you for creating this app. I Love it. Give us a downloading link for other pgn tactics, endgame, and strategies. -Best Regards Eduardo

Hello, thats weird. Haven't seen any other user having a problem. But I can fix the problem if you could just email me at pereiraasim@gmail.com so I can gather more details. Once fixed, the App will be an invaluable tool for improving your Chess!

October 19, 2016

I love this app so much cuz it helps me in my game tactics so I'll give it 5 stars...

Hi, are you able to see other Apps which have this option enabled on your device? Please email me and I can surely try and probably send you a Test version of the App to see if it works.
Thanks, Asim (pereiraasim@gmail.com)
"Like the App for the 10 other good things it does, than one thing it does not do!")

Hello Jean, sorry about the problem, but at this point we are not aware of any such issue with re-downloading.
However I am sure I can resolve the issue quickly if you could please email me at pereiraasim@gmail.com so I understand better on the exact nature of the issue. Does it throw up any error?
Thanks, Asim